<p>
	The jQuery UI effects core extends the <a
		href="http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/animate" title="Effects/animate">animate</a>
	function to be able to animate colors as well. It's heavily used by the
	class transition feature and it's able to color animate the following
	properties:
</p>
<ul>
	<li><b>backgroundColor</b></li>
	<li><b>borderBottomColor</b></li>
	<li><b>borderLeftColor</b></li>
	<li><b>borderRightColor</b></li>
	<li><b>borderTopColor</b></li>
	<li><b>color</b></li>
	<li><b>outlineColor</b></li>
</ul>
<p>with one of the following combinations:</p>
<ul>
	<li><b>hex (#FF0000)</b></li>
	<li><b>rgb (rgb(255,255,255))</b></li>
	<li><b>names ("black")</b></li>
</ul>
<p>
	<br />
</p>
<p>
<div class="options list">
	<table class="options examples" cellspacing="0">
		<thead>
			<tr>
				<th>Name</th>
				<th>Type</th>
			</tr>
		</thead>
		<tbody>
	</table>
	<b class="options">Example:</b>
	<table class="options examples" cellspacing="0">
		<thead>
			<tr>
				<th>Name</th>
				<th>Type</th>
			</tr>
		</thead>
		<tbody>
			<div class="example">
				<ul>
					<li><a href="#demo"><span>Demo</span></a></li>
					<li><a href="#source"><span>View Source</span></a></li>
				</ul>
				<div id="demo" class="tabs-container" rel="125">
					A simple color animation.<br />
					</p>
					<pre>$(&quot;.block&quot;).<a
							href="http://docs.jquery.com/Events/toggle" title="Events/toggle">toggle</a>(function() {
    $(this).<a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/animate"
							title="Effects/animate">animate</a>({ backgroundColor: &quot;black&quot; }, 1000);
},function() {
    $(this).<a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/animate"
							title="Effects/animate">animate</a>({ backgroundColor: &quot;#68BFEF&quot; }, 500);
});

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					<p>
				</div>
				<div id="source" class="tabs-container">
					</p>
					<pre>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
                    "<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"
							class="external free"
							title="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd</a>"&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
  &lt;script src="<a href="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"
							class="external free"
							title="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js">http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js</a>"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  
  &lt;script src=&quot;http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script src=&quot;http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

  &lt;script&gt;
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $(&quot;.block&quot;).<a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Events/toggle"
							title="Events/toggle">toggle</a>(function() {
    $(this).<a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/animate"
							title="Effects/animate">animate</a>({ backgroundColor: &quot;black&quot; }, 1000);
},function() {
    $(this).<a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/animate"
							title="Effects/animate">animate</a>({ backgroundColor: &quot;#68BFEF&quot; }, 500);
});

  });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;style&gt;
  .block { 
    color: white;
    background-color: #68BFEF;
    width: 150px; 
    height: 70px;
    margin: 10px; 
  }
  &lt;/style&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
  &lt;div class=&quot;block&quot;&gt; Click me&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
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	</table>
</div>
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